Werner Raupp

Werner Raupp (born February 12, 1955 in Karlsruhe ) is a German theology and philosophy historian .

Life

Initially, Raupp was an administrative officer before studying Protestant theology and philosophy at the universities of Mainz and Tübingen . Since 1987 he has worked there as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen and was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. Since then he has been working as a freelance writer; In addition, he taught from 1994 to 2002 as a lecturer for theology and social ethics at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Reutlingen-Ludwigsburg and has been the founder and head of the humanistic-philosophical working group Tusculum (Tübingen / Hohenstein) since 1997.

Raupp is the author of several books and over 400 other publications, especially on modern intellectual history. The focus is on the 18th century, especially the Enlightenment and Pietism , as well as the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Albert Schweitzer .

Act

With his work book Church History. 52 people from two millennia. With Quiz (1987) he presented a popular science introduction to church history . In addition, he re-edited a classic of Africa literature: Johann Ludwig Krapf: Reisen in Ost-Afrika (1994). His dissertation on Christian Gottlob Barth provides information about the probably most powerful Württemberg-pietist publicist of the 19th century and founder of the Calwer publishing house .

In 2008 Raupp founded the book series Humanism at Rottenburger Diderot Verlag - rediscovered with the extensive, illustrated reader about Denis Diderot - Do you ever know where you are going? (Vol. 1). Against the background of the humanistic image of the human being, the series seeks to make a human being, characterized by “tolerance, freedom of conscience, and social engagement and ecophilia” transparent.

In addition, Raupp published numerous books in series (including Lebensbilder from Baden-Württemberg, Historisch-Politisches Buch ), magazines and newspapers and in encyclopedias (including Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, Neue Deutsche Biographie , Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ) Individual contributions. In addition to Albert Schweitzer , these include philosophical minds such as Epiktet , Michel de Montaigne , Denis Diderot , Ernst Bloch and Karl Löwith . In addition, the theologians Rudolf Bultmann and Roger Schutz as well as the Pietists Philipp Jacob Spener , Gottfried Arnold , Johann Albrecht Bengel and Johann Ludwig Krapf stand . His field of activity also extends to bibliographical work. After all, the author, who lives in Hohenstein, supports the church and Christianity critics Karlheinz Deschner and Gerd Lüdemann and, in their spirit, pleads for a humanistic-theological science that is free from church patronage.

On the occasion of Diderot's 300th birthday, Raupp published another book about the French enlightener: Denis Diderot - a spark-spraying head. 100 thoughts. A mosaic for the 300th birthday of the French Enlightenment . In addition, in December 2013 he and Wulf Kellerwessel published a special issue of the journal Enlightenment and Criticism dedicated to Denis Diderot .

As part of his studies of the history of mentality, the author has also turned to the history of sports for a number of years, especially the history of football, which often has religious connotations. Here he is particularly interested in Toni Turek , the world champion from 1954, who was described by a reporter as "a football god" because of his lucky work as a goalkeeper in the Bern final. In 2009, Raupp founded the Toni Turek Archive in Hohenstein (Württemberg) and presented the first comprehensive biography of Turek at the end of 2018. He also operates the homepage through Turek.

Raupp, whose thinking is particularly oriented towards the Enlightenment as well as Arthur Schopenhauer and Albert Schweitzer (“Ethics of Reverence for Life”), is co-editor of the philosophical journal Enlightenment and Critique of the Society for Critical Philosophy Nuremberg ; He is also a member of the Kant Society and the German Aid Association for the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene eV

Raupp wrote numerous articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL).

In 1993 he received the George W. Peters Award for his research on the Württemberg- Herrhut Pietist Johann Martin Mack .

Works (selection)

• Workbook Church History. 52 people from two millennia , Gießen / Basel: Brunnen Verlag 1987, ISBN 978-3-7655-2870-5 .
• (Ed.): Mission in source texts. History of the German Evangelical Mission from the Reformation to the World Mission Conference Edinburgh 1910 , Erlangen / Bad Liebenzell 1990, ISBN 978-3-87214-238-2 .
• (Ed.): Lived Faith. Experiences and life testimonies from our country. A reader. Metzingen: Ernst Franz-Verlag 1993, ISBN 978-3-7722-0226-1 .
• Christian Gottlob Barth. Studies on life and work , Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-7668-3579-6 (plus dissertation, University of Tübingen 1996).
• Denis Diderot - "Do you ever know where you are going?" A reader. With a preface by Peter Prange , Rottenburg / Neckar: Diderot Verlag 2008 (2nd edition 2009; Humanism - newly discovered, vol. 1), ISBN 978-3-936088-95-3 .
• with Wulf Kellerwessel (ed.): Focus on Denis Diderot on his 300th birthday (= enlightenment and criticism. Journal for free thinking and humanistic philosophy, 20 (2013), issue 4).
• Denis Diderot - a sparkling head. 100 thoughts. A mosaic for the 300th birthday of the French philosopher , Marburg: Tectum Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-8288-3164-3 .
• Toni Turek - "football god". A biography , Hildesheim: Arete Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-96423-008-9 .

literature

• Kürschner's German Non-Fiction Calendar 2003/2004 (2nd year)
• Authors in Baden-Württemberg
• Sources lexicon on German literary history

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Raupp in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of the Diderot reader published by Raupp by Pierre Chartier